April 5, 2002

Rita Dove Opts to Stay at U. of Virginia; Ousted Director of Saint Ignatius Starts a New College

By RICHARD MORGAN and BETH McMURTRIE

THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY: It's not often that a job offer from Stanley Fish is rejected, but Rita F. Dove, the Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of English who has been at the University of Virginia since 1989, has spurned Mr. Fish, the administrative dean at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Ms. Dove, 49, who served as poet laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995, was recently offered the Walgreen Chair, an endowed position financed by the drugstore giant, in the English

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